Title

The Calming Effects of Music

Problem Scenario

My goal is to see if certain music will calm down people while they're performing a highly difficult task.

Broad Question

Will soft music calm down the angry temper of and adolescent teenager

Specific Question

Will the music of Jimi Hendrix sooth the flaming temper

Hypothesis

I hypothesize that the music will affect their mood as well as how they take the test, because normally calm, smooth slow music shall make them less angry once their house of cards tumble.

Graph of Hypothesis

Variables:

Independent Variable:The music

Dependent Variable: How long until they quit

Variables That Need To Be Controlled: Same desk, same deck of cards.

Vocabulary List That Needs Explanation

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General Plan

Well what I do is I get as many people as I can and get a table and I'll play Hendrix and Zappa and see how long they'll try to build a house of cards, and see how long they'll try before they eventually quit.

Potential Problems And Solutions

One of the main problems is the test subject will have bad taste in music and dislike the songs but if they don't I'll just tell them to move along. Another problem is that the song will buffer but I highly doubt it.

Safety Or Environmental Concerns

well the only problem I have in mind is that people might get accidentally cut from the cards but doubt it, and another concern I have is that the laptops music will skip or buffer alot.

Experimental Design

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What is your experimental unit?

One laptop, one deck of cards, one desk, one meter stick

Number Of Trials:

I will be repeating this process's six maybe seven

Number Of Subjects In Each trial:

Only three and those are Frank Zappa, led zeppelin and Steve Vai.

Number of Observations:

Only seven or six observation

Where will data be collected?:

Lined paper

Resources and Budget Tab

Item	Number needed	Where I will get this	Cost
Frank Zappa sleep dirt album.	just one	my house.	0.00
Jimi Hendrix axis:bold as love album.	one.	my house.	0.00
Jimi Hendrix voodoo Chile album.	one	my house.	0.00
Lenovo laptop	one	My school	0.00
Led Zeppelin:Dazed and confused album	one	My school

Detailed Procedure

1. Get cards, wobbly table.
2. Put the cards on the table.
3. Get meter stick
4. stick needs to be balanced on table to measure the length of card house.
5. ask a person to build a house cards while the music is playing,
6. the person will ask for a more sturdy table which I will decline.
7. hopefully he/she will will fail miserably while the music hopefully calms them down.

Diagram

Photo List

Time Line

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Data Table

Classic rock	Pop	Live Guitar Solo
120	21	240
215	25	240
120
240
Classic Rock	pop	Live Guitar Solo
173.75	23	240

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Data Analysis

All Raw Data

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Results
A lot of people had difficulties but with music playing none of them had gotten angry, one person did however get frustrated, but other than that it

Conclusion

70's music does calm down a lot of people when they're performing menial tasks that would normally make people angry.

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Discussion

Benefit to Community and/or Science

Well this benefits the science community and the regular community because with this knowledge of this nature, people will complete their tasks a lot easier, the soothing guitar solos and classic rock due to my research will make someone be able to endure such difficult tasks.

Background Research

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